January 2014

“In the foreground was the cleared land for the new park. South Main Street leading to the Main Street Bridge, Gibbs Shipyard in the center of picture. Lobster House on left. Mary Street on right. 1955.” LS This photo was taken at a time when the city was starting a building boom with a new [...]

There is no information about what was being filmed but it looks to me like a production shoot, perhaps some type of commercial, late 1940′s or early 1950′s. According to the 1949 Jacksonville City directory the Harry P. Davis Service Station was located at 2045 Hendricks Avenue, just before the San Marco intersection with Atlantic [...]

A beautiful bride surrounded by her wedding gifts. It looks like she did pretty good! Unfortunately, as with most of the wedding photographs in the Loyd Sandgren collection, there were no notes with this image to identify the newlywed but if anyone can help put a name or location with this photograph, I would love [...]

“Bunny Yeager, a famous model and photographer, poses a model at Cypress Gardens, 1952. The background was painted, the sand was real. Hundreds of photographers were there for the program.” LS Bunny Yeager started out as a model then switched to being a photographer, gaining fame as the only female pin-up photographer of the 50′s. [...]